Stepas Butautas (alternate spellings: Stiepas, Butaustas) (25 August 1925 – 22 March 2001 in Kaunas) was a Soviet and Lithuanian professional basketball player and coach.

[1] He played with the Soviet Union men's national basketball team at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games, where he won a silver medal.

Butautas was the head coach of the Soviet Union women's national basketball team, from 1958 to 1964.

He coached Cuba at the 1967 CentroBasket, the 1968 Summer Olympic Games, and at the 1970 FIBA World Championship.

His son, Ramūnas Butautas, was the head coach of the Lithuania men's national basketball team.